31 Facts About Public administration

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In every sphere of social, economic and political life there is Public administration which means that for the proper functioning of the organization or institution it must be properly ruled or managed and from this concept emerges the idea of Public administration.

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Public administration is "centrally concerned with the organization of government policies and programs as well as the behavior of officials formally responsible for their conduct".

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Public administration administrators are public employees working in public departments and agencies, at all levels of government.

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Public administration is a segment of the larger field of administration.

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Public administration argues that public administration is the public provision of public goods in which the demand function is satisfied more or less effectively by politics, whose primary tool is rhetoric, providing for public goods, and the supply function is satisfied more or less efficiently by public management, whose primary tools are speech acts, producing public goods.

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Public administration has referred to thirteen enemies who remain disguised in the kingdom for their selfish interests.

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Public administration appears to be contemporaneous with the Harappa and Mohenjo-daaro culture.

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Public administration administrators have long been the "eyes and ears" of rulers.

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Von Stein taught that public administration relies on many preestablished disciplines such as sociology, political science, administrative law and public finance.

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Public administration called public administration an integrating science, and stated that public administrators should be concerned with both theory and practice.

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Public administration argued that public administration is a science because knowledge is generated and evaluated according to the scientific method.

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Public administration believed that scientific analysis would lead to the discovery of the "one best way" to do things or carrying out an operation.

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The accomplishments of the Settlement movement and their conception of public administration was ignored in the early literature of public administration.

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The alternative model of Public Administration was invisible or buried for about 100 years until Camilla Stivers published Bureau Men and Settlement Women in 2000.

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Separation of politics and administration advocated by Wilson continues to play a significant role in public administration today.

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Public administration would have to distance itself from politics to answer this call and remain effective.

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Concurrently, after World War II, the whole concept of public administration expanded to include policymaking and analysis, thus the study of "administrative policy making and analysis" was introduced and enhanced into the government decision-making bodies.

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The new theory, which came to be called New Public administration Management, was proposed by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler in their book Reinventing Government.

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Some critics argue that the New Public administration Management concept of treating people as "customers" rather than "citizens" is an inappropriate borrowing from the private sector model, because businesses see customers as a means to an end, rather than as the proprietors of government, opposed to merely the customers of a business .

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Public administration claimed that rational bureaucrats will universally seek to increase the budgets of their units, thereby contributing to state growth and increased public expenditure.

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Goals of the field of public administration are related to the democratic values of improving equality, justice, security, efficiency and effectiveness of public services in a non-profit venue; business administration, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with expanding market share, generating revenue and earning profit.

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New Public Management represents a reform attempt that emphasizes the professional nature of public administration.

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Public administration theory is the domain in which discussions of the meaning and purpose of government, the role of bureaucracy in supporting democratic governments, budgets, governance, and public affairs takes place.

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In recent years, public administration theory has periodically connoted a heavy orientation toward critical theory and postmodern philosophical notions of government, governance, and power.

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Comparative public administration emerged during the post-World War II period in order to seek international developmental strategies which aided in the containment of communism during the Cold War.

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Comparative public administration lacks curriculum, which has prevented it from becoming a major field of study.

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Waugh argues that public administration requires an understanding of different administrative structures and a comparison of different public administration models.

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The lack or ill-formed use of comparative public administration has been detrimental for many countries, including the United States.

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The field of comparative public administration is often misunderstood for the definition itself is complex and requires layers of understanding.

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Center for Latin American Administration for Development, based in Caracas, Venezuela, this regional network of schools of public administration set up by the governments in Latin America is the oldest in the region.

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Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration is a state-membership based organization, open to other organizations and individuals, headquartered in the Philippines with centres and membership organized around the Asia Pacific region.

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